Amp

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Amp is a coding agent that its site describes as "built for the frontier". Its central idea is orbs, which its homepage calls remote machines where agents run without supervision. You can use it from the web, a terminal CLI and Android, and continue from your phone. As of October 2026 Amp has a free Hobby tier, an Individual tier at $20 a month, a Teams plan with no extra charge and custom Enterprise pricing. A news post dated 2 December 2025 is titled "Amp Frontier Corporation" and says Amp was becoming its own company. It belongs with the agent tools on our best AI coding assistant page and our AI coding assistants collection. What Amp does • Orbs: the homepage says orbs are remote machines where agents run without supervision. Orbs can run on Amp-hosted infrastructure or on your own. Self-hosted orbs were announced on 22 October 2026, and a way to add your own self-hosted orb provider on 28 October 2026. • macOS Satellites (29 October 2026): an orb can start a Mac to build, test and run iOS and Mac apps. • Everywhere: Amp runs on the web and in the terminal, and you can continue from your phone. Amp on Android was announced on 27 October 2026. • Terminal and CI: run amp locally, amp sync to mirror an orb's changes into a local checkout, or amp --no-tui on servers and CI runners. • Visualize This (29 October 2026): Amp can show charts, timelines, diagrams and mockups inside the thread. • Issues and pull requests: a 19 October 2026 post covers assigning Linear issues to Amp, and a 12 October 2026 post covers Amp following up on GitHub pull requests. • Use your own subscriptions: the site says that linking a ChatGPT subscription makes the low, medium and high Dial settings use it instead of Amp credits, and a news post of 10 October 2026 is titled "Use Your Claude Plan in Amp". • Runner desktop: a 16 October 2026 post covers viewing and using your macOS runner's desktop. Pricing (as of October 2026) • Hobby: free. Pay-as-you-go pricing for Amp-hosted orbs, unlimited self-hosted orbs at no cost, public and private repositories, and you can bring your own keys. The free usage amount is not stated. • Individual: $20 a month. 45,000 minutes of orb time for Amp-hosted orbs, unlimited self-hosted orbs and unlimited public and private repositories. The card names Megawatt and Gigawatt as tier names. • Teams: no extra charge for the plan. Members can be on Hobby, Megawatt or Gigawatt. Adds team thread sharing, shared portals, user management, shared billing, pooled credits and SSO. • Enterprise: custom pricing. Pooled credits only with no paid user seats, plus SCIM directory sync, audit logs, IP allowlisting and priority support. The homepage also says Ultra continues to use Amp credits. Who it suits • Developers who want agents to keep working on remote machines without supervision. • Teams that want shared threads, shared portals and SSO. • Mobile developers who need a Mac to build and test iOS apps from an agent. • People who already pay for ChatGPT or Claude and want to reuse it. Limitations to know • Amp is a coding agent for developers, not a no-code app builder. • The free Hobby tier does not state an amount of included Amp-hosted orb usage. • Credit amounts and the difference between Megawatt and Gigawatt were not visible on the pricing page. FAQs What is Amp? A coding agent with cloud orbs, a CLI and web and mobile access. Is Amp free? Yes. The Hobby tier is free, with unlimited self-hosted orbs and your own keys. Amp-hosted orbs are pay as you go. How much does Amp cost? As of October 2026 Individual is $20 a month with 45,000 minutes of Amp-hosted orb time. Teams has no extra charge, and Enterprise is custom. What is an orb? A remote machine where agents run without supervision, created by Amp for a thread. Can I use my Claude or ChatGPT plan? Amp's homepage says a linked ChatGPT subscription can be used for the Dial settings, a 10 October 2026 news post covers using a Claude plan in Amp, and the Hobby tier lets you bring your own keys. Which platforms does it run on? The web, the terminal and Android, and you can continue from your phone. What we could not verify • The free usage allowance on Hobby and the credit amounts on paid tiers. • The price and differences of the Gigawatt tier. • The size or funding of the company behind Amp. A news post dated 2 December 2025 says only that Amp was becoming its own company. How this listing was put together This listing is based on Amp's own homepage, pricing page and news page. Facts verified on 31 October 2026. Sources • Amp homepage • Amp pricing • Amp news